Ann Major The Girl with the Golden Gun

The Girl with the Golden Gun

Ann Major

Mira, Nov 2005, $6.99

ISBN: 0778322246

When he was a preadolescent, Shanghai Knight saved two year old Mia Kemble from being run over, risking his life in the process. Instead of gratitude, her father Caesar, the driver, loathes Shanghai who was acclaimed a hero. Now a teen, Mia still worships Shanghai, but though he likes her, he hates her father who he believes stole everything from his drunken loser of a dad. An incident forces Shanghai to leave town, with Mia promising to find him when she becomes an adult.

Fifteen years later, Mia is held prisoner by Mexican drug lord Tavio Morales, who actually saved her life when a plane with her husband, Shanghai's brother Cole, crashed into the sea. Her father and her daughter Vanilla think she is dead. Her only hope for rescue lies with Shanghai, but he let her down a few years ago when he impregnated her only to leave her.

This exhilarating romantic suspense thriller needs a bit of patience to comprehend the chronological order of events, which abruptly leap from a young Mia vowing to find her beloved to her captivity; complicating matters are her thoughts back to sleeping in Vegas with Shanghai, but marrying her brother and an FBI sidebar involving Tavio's sibling. Once all that begins to converge as the storyline concentrates on Mia's incarceration and attempts to escape, fans receive a terrific thriller starring a courageous heroine, an obsessed crazed drug lord, and a hero ready to rescue his beloved.